OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #777565
MORONI FEED CO. PROCESSING DIVISION
MORONI, UT·
Event description
Employee's fingers amputated in revolving blades of grinder
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:05 a.m. on May 12, 1989, Employee #1 was adding turkey parts to a Seydelmanz grinder/mixer. The plastic bag that contained the turkey parts fell into the grinder/mixer. To avoid contamination of the ground meat, Employee #1 tried to take out the plastic bag but his left hand became caught in the rev olving blades of the grinder. Employee #1's fingers were amputated. The grinder/ mixer had an open hopper, which allowed the employee's fingers to become caught in the mixer blades.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 48 Male
- Nature of injury
- Amputation (1)
- Part of body
- FINGER(S) (10)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Crushing and grinding machine operators (768)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.